{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://khanna.house.gov/media/press-releases/new-rep-ro-khanna-speaks-new-york-times-magazine-about-future-progressivism", "NEW: REP. RO KHANNA SPEAKS TO THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE ABOUT THE FUTURE OF PROGRESSIVISM", "2023-12-17", "2023", "2023-12", "Democrat", "House", "CA", "Ro Khanna", "K000389", "khanna.house.gov", "khanna", "https://khanna.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "Washington, DC \u2013 Today, The New York Times Magazine released a new interview with Rep. Ro Khanna (CA-D) on the future of progressivism and his plan in Congress to broaden the coalition with a strong economic message and a focus on Americans who have been left behind across the country.\n\nIn the interview, Khanna details his start in politics, his focus on economic production and a new economic patriotism, and how to capture people\u2019s imaginations.\n\nKhanna says, \u201cMy aspiration is to inspire not just progressives but a majority of this country. My argument is that the central concern people have, including progressives, is that the American dream has slipped away, that people don\u2019t think that their lives or their kids\u2019 lives are going to be as good as the lives of their parents. So how do we capture the economic imagination of the country to believe that their prospects are going to be better? Having a perpetual economic-development council at the White House \u2014 which we don\u2019t have \u2014 is important. Then doing things in communities that have lost steel; say, look, we\u2019re going to put up new steel plants in these communities. That would go a huge way in capturing the imagination and getting the working class that has been left out to say, \u2018We\u2019re going to be part of this economy.\u2019\u201d\n\nKhanna also addresses the tensions surrounding progressive capitalism saying, \u201cThe core progressive animating idea has largely been redistribution: We\u2019ve got to tax the wealthy. There are challenges that I would pose to that. I\u2019m for taxing the rich more, but there has to be a focus on economic production \u2014 on how do we grow the pie? Not just redistribution, but giving more people the opportunity to create wealth. That has to be part of the progressive vision, and that has to involve the private sector. You can\u2019t build new steel factories in this country in Ashtabula, Ohio, or Johnstown, Pa., if you don\u2019t work with the private sector. So on challenging the progressive side: Have a focus on production, and be open to a partnership with the private sector. On the capitalism side: You have to care about place. You can\u2019t just say let\u2019s have all this macroeconomic growth and not focus on every district in America. Make sure that you understand that it is a bad thing for America that my district has $10 trillion of company value and other districts are totally in despair.\u201d\n\nRead the full interview here.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T01:14:16Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://khanna.house.gov/media/press-releases/new-rep-ro-khanna-speaks-new-york-times-magazine-about-future-progressivism"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.6535408794879913, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}